Beyond Compliance: In Conversation

How are children affected by armed conflict? What kinds of harm do they face? And can the protection for children offered by international law translate into reality on the ground? Engaging with these questions, in this episode Katharine and Florian speak with Lway Mownt Noon, a Myanmar human rights activist and research consultant for the Beyond Compliance Consortium, and Cécile Aptel, Professor of Practice at the Fletcher School. Cited Documents: Lway Mownt, Noon, Holmes, Samantha, Rush, Ch...

How does war affect mental health? And is international law equipped to recognise and address these harms? In this episode, Katharine and Florian speak with Lyla Schwartz, Program & Psychology Director at Poma Global and Researcher at the University of Basel, and Samantha Holmes, Researcher at the Beyond Compliance Consortium at the University of York’s Centre for Applied Human Rights. Cited Documents: Holmes, Samantha, Incidental mental harm through a decolonial lens: A culturally and co...

How are drones changing the way wars are fought? What kinds of harm do they cause for civilians? And is international law able to keep pace with these developments? Engaging with these questions, in this episode of Beyond Compliance: In Conversation, Katharine and Florian speak with Khrystyna Kozak, Researcher at the Center for Civilians in Conflict’s (CIVIC) Ukraine Country Office, and Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi, Assistant Professor of Law at Sciences Po Law School. Cited Documents: Center for C...

What is ‘civilian harm’, and how should it be understood in contemporary warfare? Why do definitions matter, and who gets to shape them? In this episode, Katharine and Florian speak with Lauren Gould from Utrecht University and Janina Dill from the University of Oxford about evolving approaches to defining and addressing harm to civilians. Cited Documents: Gould, L., Demmers, J., Bijl, E., & Azeem , S. Investigating Remote Warfare as the Radical Undoing of Life: The compounding civilian h...

What does the loss of home during conflict mean for those affected? And how well does international law capture and address this experience? In this episode, Katharine and Florian talk to Luke Moffett, Chair of the Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law at Queen's University Belfast, and Ammar Azzouz, Research Fellow at the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford, about the weaponisation of architecture during armed conflict, and how the emotional and soci...